Motto | Veritatem Dilexi (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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I Delight in the Truth |
Type |
Private liberal arts college Women's college |
Established | 1885 |
Affiliation | None, formerly Quaker |
Endowment | $853.0 million (2015) |
President | Kimberly Wright Cassidy |
Academic staff
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158 full-time |
Students | 1,771 |
Undergraduates | 1,307 |
Postgraduates | 464 |
Location |
Bryn Mawr Lower Merion Twp, PA, USA |
Campus | Suburban, 135 acres (55 ha) |
Colors | Yellow and White |
Athletics | NCAA Division III – Centennial Conference |
Mascot | Owl |
Affiliations |
Seven Sisters CLAC Oberlin Group Annapolis Group WCC |
Website | www.brynmawr.edu |
Bryn Mawr College Historic District
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Location | Morris Ave., Yarrow St. and New Gulph Rd., Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA |
Coordinates | 40°1′35″N 75°18′49″W / 40.02639°N 75.31361°WCoordinates: 40°1′35″N 75°18′49″W / 40.02639°N 75.31361°W |
Area | 49 acres (20 ha) |
Built | 1885 |
Architect | Multiple |
Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival, Gothic, Collegiate Gothic |
NRHP Reference # | 79002299 |
Added to NRHP | May 4, 1979 |
University rankings | |
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National | |
Forbes | 70 |
Liberal arts colleges | |
U.S. News & World Report | 31 |
Washington Monthly | 6 |
Bryn Mawr College (/ˌbrɪnˈmɑːr/ brin-MAR; Welsh: [ˌbrɨ̞nˈmaur]) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, four miles (6.4 km) west of Philadelphia. The phrase bryn mawr means "big hill" in Welsh., literally "hill (bryn) big (mawr)".
Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, and is part of the Tri-College Consortium along with two other colleges founded by Quakers—Swarthmore College and Haverford College in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The school has an enrollment of about 1300 undergraduate students and 450 graduate students.